- playing my song
You’ll need a piano, keyboard, xylophone (like in the picture) or glockenspiel (small, even a toy one will work).
Make 7 sentences beginning Thank you….(try to fit it in 4 beats but if you’re not a musician, don’t worry, it will still work. Start on C (the white key to the left of 2 black keys. On C (marked on a xylophone), tap out your first “thank you phrase” and tap and sing the words of each syllable. Then move to the next key or bar and tap and sing the syllables of your 2nd “thank you phrase.” Keep moving to the right until you have placed one phrase on B or the 7th bar. Now go to the next highest bar (to the right) which is high C. Now you go to the left (descending in pitch) and tap once on each bar fitting it to your 8th sentence or phrase. Something like: Thank you God for all I have now. If you create a final line with 8 syllables, you’ll end up on the bar or key that you started on.
This lesson integrates language arts with music. Enjoy:)
Sorry, you’ll need an 8th phrase for high C and then you start on high C and come down tapping once on each bar to play and sing your 9th line- Thank you…